League Wireless Station

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 24, 28 December 1928, Page 7

League Wireless Station

[y TRHRESTING possibilities in the development of the League wireless station at Geneva are suggested in the report of the committee of experts which has recently dealt with the subject. : The primary reason for such a league station is the need for rapid communication with council members at a moment of crisis. The objection to the installation of a league station is, of course, expense. But it is pointed out that many nations maintain at great cost all sorts of pieces of emergency mechanism needed only for use in time of war, and it is therefore the more legitimate to incur a small collective expense in the interests of peace. " The experts do not think that such apparatus, if constructed, would be of value in emergencies only. They point out in the next passage in their report that the station could make a general distribution by circular wireless telegrams of press news. Government information, and important League documents; it could organise -a letter telegram service between Geneva and the more distant. member States, which at present receive their information by mail, and consequently are apt to be out of touch with the latest League developments; further, a considerable proportion of the telegrams now .exchanged between the ores

— Secretary-General of the League and the different Governments, and _between the Governments and _ their delegations, would be sent through the League wireless station. The proposal will come before the council shortly.